UnfrostedCredit: Netflix
Jerry Seinfeld has a joke in his standup routine the place he asks “what’s up with Pop Tarts?”
It’s a really Jerry Seinfeld bit, and it’s fairly humorous as a result of a superb comic is aware of easy methods to spot these little bizarre cultural issues and take advantage of out of them. On this case, the Pop Tart—a breakfast deal with that I’ve by no means discovered in any respect satisfying, however one thing that “can by no means go stale as a result of it’s by no means been contemporary.”
There’s an absurdity to the Pop Tart. A bowl of cereal is tastier and simply as simple to arrange. There’s much more selection in the case of breakfast cereals than Pop Tarts. However for no matter motive, the Pop Tart was successful, and that’s what Seinfeld’s new Netflix present Unfrosted explores.
Earlier than we go additional, right here’s the standup bit Seinfeld basically primarily based this whole showcase of:
Seinfeld will not be solely the star of Unfrosted however the creator and director and he’s gathered round him a fairly stellar all-star forged together with Melissa McCarthy, Invoice Burr, James Marsden, Dan Levy, Hugh Grant, Jim Gaffigan, Christian Slater, Jack McBrayer, Sarah Cooper, Adrian Martinez and plenty of, many extra. The “one factor” I’m griping about is Amy Schumer, who I nonetheless discover completely puzzling. Schumer simply by no means comes off as significantly humorous to me. She was a blight on Season 2 of Solely Murders In The Constructing. She’s simply not an excellent comic. She’s a type of celebrities that by some means made it regardless of being actually unhealthy on the factor she’s imagined to be well-known for. Both that or I simply don’t click on together with her explicit model of humor.
Nonetheless, Unfrosted appears like a enjoyable Nineteen Sixties’ comedy in regards to the intersection of breakfast and capitalism, and the way a fairly mediocre, undeniably bland meals merchandise grew to become an enormous hit—form of like many of the largest pop artists on the market. Pop Tart feels very apropos when you concentrate on it.
Right here’s the trailer:
Unfrosted pops onto Netflix on Might third.
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